Turn 2155

[Snowflake]

Buster's finish the turn.

Probing went well - got neural, sothb & the uni map which interestingly enough includes the cycon mainland. They must be co-operating closely - which recent tech exchanges also indicate.

Env. econ, DAP & neural sent pre-accepted

Maps attached

One last thing - as the SP discussion was never taken to a clear agreement, I just want to ensure it is agreed that if you on this turn do Cloudbase then we will get first right to cyborg factory, PEG, ascetic virtues & HSA provided we manage to avoid getting into a situation where we may loose one as one of the others get in a position to grab it.

My reply:

Thanks buster! Exactly like I thought.

Since Enigma has quit I guess it is very likely I will be playing this turn. The SP agreement I think is exactly like you said. I will stick to it. Still like to hear your opinion regarding PEACE.

Looks to me that the Drone's has so far proved their loyalty to the perm pact. Whereas the CCs as I suspected has been trying to fool us. Enigma has also informed me some time ago that laurentis of the CC said that he had infiltrated everybody but the Drones and that they do not view the Hive as a big threat any more. I believe everybody of the Hive should really set our for and against clear now.

I will try to see if I can find dacole. And if nobody objects I will try play this turn. I will also post the save before end turn here. Please let me know if there are anything I need to be careful. Also I would like to know if anybody else would like to play.

[Snowflake]

I may not have enough time to collect infiltration data if I were to play the turn. Would somebody help me to prepare the Covert Operations Report? I think it would be helpful to analyze CC's situation.

[Snowflake]

Been thinking about the turn a little. IIRC the peace has offered us Doc: Init preaccepted. I think I will first accept the three techs Drones give us and finish MMI. What do we want to reseach the next? I have not checked if we could do Bio-engineering? Or do we want to do something else? Do we want to accept Init after I finish MMI?

Production wise I hope Enigma has prepared the crawlers to finish the Cloud Academy. I plan to build a prototype copter and a drop unit. Other bases I'm thinking we should build crawlers mainly since we are losing quite some crawlers for the SP building and will take a hit on our production. Perhaps the next turn or two we would need to switch to military production? Or are we there yet? I am really bad at wars. I really hope somebody could pick this up. We need to discuss some war strategies guys. Isn't this the moment you are waiting for? To kick some asses?

Longtermly I think we should beeline to The Cloning Vats to get perm pop booming. Any thought on that?

[Snowflake]

Who has downloaded the turn? I haven't, tass haven't, googlie was not on. Just want to make sure the CCs do not have our password as well.

[Vander]

I haven't touched it.
Isn't (wasn't) Vev the military commander? See if he can give advice the war.

[Snowflake]

On topic of research again. Should we do Int Integrity to get police units? Or do we want Bio-engineering to get clean units and Long Vaccine (two less drones).

[Jamski]

Hong, sweetie, I need you to e-mail it to me again. I can't download form 'poly anymore I don't want to comment unless I can see the turn.

-Jam

[Snowflake]

So that one download, is it you? I've been worrying somebody else might have gotten hold of our password.

[Snowflake]

Oh and email address again please. You seem to have several email addresses in the past. I'm confused which is the right one to use being the dumbest girl I am.

[Jamski]

Use the "special one" that only you know about

Ah - you did

-Jam

[Snowflake]

You didn't answer my question about the download Jamski. Or does that belong to "things better left unsaid" too?

What things are better left unsaid? Why are things better left unsaid?

On a second thought, this maybe exactly what I really really need to learn. I've always talked too much I think.

[Snowflake]

Ok anyway, I have started the turn yesterday but didn't have time to go very far.

Buster offered DAP, Env eco, and Neural grafting so we finished MMI and now is researching II.

Enigma did a good job preparing for the SP and we now have cloudbase academy. I'm aiming to assemble a military force in the next two to three turns. Buster will provide us a missle plane next turn. We need to work out a plan coordinating with the Drones to take out the uni. We also need to negotiate with the Drones about how should the territory be sliced between us.

Drones seems to have accepted our gesture of protecting the PEACE. I'm still not sure if we should accept the PEACE's offering of Doc Init.

I see people are around here. I would like to hear more discussions. Please, people.

[Snowflake]

Well I'll wait for another one and half hour then I'll have to do the turn. I'll finish it tonight and post it here for more comment. We need to send it out tomorrow I think.

[Frankychan]

shoot, it looks like my post didn't get through. Well...going back to your initial posts, if possible I think we should go for Bio-Eng for the "clean machines". I hope we can hold off until we get them because a massive, prolonged military campaign might be detrimental to us in the long run.

Second thought, are the Drone's asking for first dibs on ALL of those SP's, or just the first one they are able to get? That seems pretty steep to me.....

Lastly, what do we have to provide for the PEACE's Doc. Ini? If it is gratis, then we should take it. I don't remember what was said about that.....sorry.

[Vander]

Quick question: What does the cloudbas Academy do? (I'm not privvy to the SMAX Secret Projects...)